Evil Side Of Dark Personality Disorders

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Every human being has an “evil side” to one’s identity, which is often explained by researchers as dark personality disorders. Dark sides may be caused by what one experienced during childhood like abusive parents and broken families or bullying that led to the increase of malevolent thoughts and behavior. Also, insecurity may also generate one’s roots on the dark side. People have a strong ability to copy and imitate as when still an infant, one has the ability of fast learning. Even as a child, dark, evil thoughts could develop and elevate quickly, resulting in severely intense situations getting out of control. This would result in major problematic situations for the society, since children’s mind aren’t fully developed and may not know how to handle situations correctly caused by evilness. Even adults with supposedly fully grown minds lose control and fall to the “dark side”, when in fact no one is born perfect, people make mistakes. The “evil side” of human beings are shown in multiple personality disorders, the dark triad, and the media.
According to Harrison, Dissociative identity disorder (DID) with an alternative name of multiple personality
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Humans with this personality disorder often feel the need to be appreciated. Admittedly, this crave for admiration often leads narcissists to aggravating jobs, but since appearance is so important to them, they perform exceptionally well in difficult situations. (291). Analogous to Machiavellians, narcissists will do whatever it takes get what they want. “Trait differences of narcissism were measured using the NPI which assesses four factors: exploitative /entitlement, leadership/authority, superiority/arrogance, and self-absorption/self-admiration, and consists of 40 forced-choice items” (Raskin & Hall

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